Any society that has progress and growth as its goal should be concerned with gun death, because such deaths could have been prevented. Every gun death is a record of the failure of the society to maintain order, control violence and protect its members.

Some people may argue that gun deaths should be accepted as inevitable aberrations. This argument can be accepted if we have done everything we could, to have order in the society. But when we know that we can do much more in the area of gun control and we have only been engaging ourselves in an endless gun control debate, without taking any concrete action, we cannot take shelter under this argument.

Gun control facts show that gun violence and gun deaths remain unabated. Gun crime statistics have been showing us that the incidence of gun death keeps growing with the level of gun ownership. But we are still in the process of weighing the gun control pros and cons without taking firm action demanded by these statistics. Let us take a few gun control facts as examples to get a clear idea of the factors that contribute to gun death and the action required to curb this.

The people of United States own about half of the guns in the world. (This statistics relates only to private guns and not the guns with the armed forces, police and other law enforcement agencies.) What is wrong with this figure, you may ask. You will realize that everything is wrong with this, if you know that the US population forms only 5 percent of the population of the world! If 5 percent of the people in the world possess 50 percent of the guns of the world, you can easily assess the potential for disaster.

It is not surprising therefore that every year there are about 30,000 gun deaths in the US. With such a high level of gun ownership, it is only natural that there is a higher level of gun deaths. It is also found that women and children living in a house that has a gun, are more vulnerable to gun violence. Unfortunately, the NRA (National Rifles Association) remains unmoved by gun death statistics. Some legislators supporting the NRA have been creating rules that will have the effect of preventing organizations like the CDC and the National Institute of Health from even studying gun violence.

It may not be possible to put an end to the horror of gun death just as it is not possible to eradicate any type of crime completely. But we can definitely do something about arresting the occurrence of gun deaths. Gun death is a consequence of gun ownership and hence any attempt to arrest the former has to involve controlling the latter. Gun crime statistics have been repeatedly showing that unrestrained gun ownership invariably leads to an increase in gun crime. But in spite of heaps and heaps of evidence unearthed by gun death statistics, a solution to the problem of gun death still remains elusive.

Gun control facts show that gun ownership in the United States is disproportionately high. This can be seen from the fact that people living in the US possess about half of all the privately owned guns in the world. The abnormality of this can be understood if we consider that the US population is only 5 percent of the population of the world. If 5 percent of the people in the world own 50 percent of the guns in the world, it is certainly a matter for concern.

Another information brought out by gun control articles is that every year, more than 30,000 people in America are killed by guns. With so many guns in our country, we cannot expect something better! Various statistics have confirmed the correlation between high gun ownership and a high gun death rate. The finding that suicide rate is also high in areas with high gun ownership confirms this. It appears that gun death is a price we have to pay for allowing people to own guns without exercising any control on the use of guns.

People who are opposed to gun control just ignore gun death as a problem. For them, owning guns is a right conferred on them by the 2nd amendment. The fact that about 99 percent of the 2nd amendment resulted from the inputs given by people with no legal background is of no concern to these people. These people also use the concept of democracy to oppose any kind of control. They need to understand that democracy can be preserved only by preventing tyranny and that the tyranny of gun death can pose a severe threat to democracy.